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Tip

Why not try?

Mixed wild mushrooms are delicious seasoned
and fried in olive oil or butter, then piled onto
buttered toast and topped with a poached egg.

Method

Bring a kettle to the boil, then pour the
water over the dried porcini just to cover.
Heat half the butter in a saucepan, then
gently sizzle the onion, garlic and thyme for
5 mins until softened and starting to brown.
Drain the porcini, reserving the juice, then
add to the onion with the mixed wild
mushrooms. Leave to cook for 5 mins until
they go limp. Pour over the stock and the
reserved juices, bring to the boil, then
simmer for 20 mins. Stir in crème fraîche,
then simmer for a few mins more. Blitz the
soup with a hand blender or liquidiser, pass
through a fine sieve, then set aside.

Heat the remaining butter in a frying pan,
fry the bread cubes until golden, then drain
on kitchen paper. To serve, heat the soup and froth up with a hand blender, if you
like. Ladle the soup into bowls, scatter
over the croûtons and chives and drizzle
with truffle oil.

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Comments

Excellent! Best Mushroom soup recipe for me, as I'm a huge fan of anything with Mushrooms!! Tried this out on my young daughter as she can be quite fussy. She "wolfed" it down and asked for seconds. If I can succeed with a new recipe with my little "guinea pig" then it's a winner!!!!!! Plan to do this again as part of my next Dinner Party when Hubby comes home. 10/10!

This was delicious. I only had 100ml of half fat creme fraiche, so I made it up with some 1% milk (thanks for the tip, kjmccarthy1). I also omitted the butter in an effort to cut the fat content further, substituting it for a smaller quantity of olive oil. I also had some mushroom ketchup in the cupboard, so I added a splash of that to make it even mushroomier, as I used chestnut and portobello mushrooms rather than wild.

This is delicious! I didn't have porcini mushrooms but used closed cup and chestnut mushrooms in the soup. Added a bit of cornflour to thicken it and seasoned with lots of pepper. I did whizz with a hand blender but didn't bother sieving as I liked having small bits of mushroom as texture.

An excellent soup, the porcini is a must provides so much flavour, i used chestnut mushrooms instead of wild which was fine, have made several times now and goes down well with all the familly kids and adults alike

First time I have made mushroom soup and it turned out fab, the only bit I decided to add was a tablespoon of plain flour to the mushrooms and onions before pouring over the stock just to thicken it, then carried on as per recipe...gorgeous

I actually made this with a load of mushrooms I got reduced in Tesco last night, didn't use porcini mushrooms just flat, chestnut and button mushrooms... Absolutely delicious! I too left it a little 'chunky' gorgeous with French bread!

This was the first time I have ever made soup and this recipe was easy to do, worked perfectly and tasted amazing! I didnt bother making it smooth, just blended and left it with fine chunks and loved the textures. Cant wait to make it again, would definitely recommend.

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